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Friday, 18 January 2013

SAVAGE REPUBLIC - Ceremonial (1985)

"One of the most original bands to come out of Los Angeles during those
fervent years was Savage Republic,
led by guitarist Bruce Licher. Tragic Figures (1982) introduced a
psychedelic and industrial music that was mostly instrumental and percussive,
inducing trance and fear. The EP Trudge (1985) incorporated more
explicitly elements of world-music. The atmospheric Ceremonial (1985)
and Jamahiriya (1988), featuring new member Brad Laner, perfected
their synthesis of psychedelic drones, middle-eastern cantillation and tribal
rhythms. By the time of Customs (1989), their last album and their
masterpiece, they had coined a musical language of extreme tension,
instrumental subtlety and exotic appeal.."